how has life changed and stayed the same (country store to a shopping mall to ordering online, one room school house to schools today, making own clothes to purchasing at store, making own food to grocery store, making corn husk doll to toys r us, walking/horses/trains/boats to cars and trucks, candles to electricity, ice boxes to refrigerators, working at home to the work place back to home, stay at home mom to working mom needing childcare, country doctors to medical centers, bartering to purchasing, story telling to books to ebooks, playing instruments to ipods, source of power-water to nuclear, horse plows to tractors, hand milking to machines, telegraph to telelphone to cell phones, extended family homes to individual family living, outhouses to flushable toilets, wood stoves to central heating)
Vermont inventions- see VT book in library (scales)
events cause/effect (Irene-people built homes higher, new construction rules, bridges, roads, Flood of 1927, underground railroad)
Migration in Vermont (voluntary and involuntary migration to Vermont- lived near rivers for transportation)
Contributions of various cultural groups to Vermont and US (French and English)
Identifying ways in which culture in VT has changed (colonists learning maple sugaring from the Indians, Indians acquiring metal tools in exchange for furs, medicine from medicine man, religion, artistic skills (Italians and sculpting), granite, extended families living together to individual families,
diversitiy has lead to change (imigration groups)
Famous Vermonters- Ethan Allen, Ann Story, Thomas Chittenden, Calvin Collidge, CHester Arthur, Snowflake Bentley, Madeline Kunin)
Secretary of State for Kids
Guide to Vermont History
History of Vermont
State of Vermont History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ConstitutionHouse_WindsorVermont.JPG
History Starting with the French
Famous VermontersOther Famous Vermonters
(early vermont (find links, wikipedia) original documents (state of vt website))